For the first time in our nation’s history, a foreign commander is in charge of US forces.
Obama has appointed German Army Brig. Gen. Markus Laubenthal to serve as the chief of staff of USAREUR (U. S. Army in Europe) headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, who took command at the end of August 2014.
One German official stated that this would likely be the first of many such exchanges.
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Not true. British general was in command at El Alamein in North Africa when US troops engaged German troops for the first time in WW II.
Why ?????
Every time I try to read replies on comments they keep disappearing! Has this happened to anyone else?
WTH???
a Muslim refugee from Germany?????
Here we go!!! Probably a$#%&!@*in his tree!
At least he will not be a democrack plant in that posting.
maybe that’s true for “in total command of a division”(although during ww1 and ww2 we also had foreign allies commanding groups), but certainly, we have had many foreign officers in charge of small groups (and not so small groups) during all of our armed conflicts. Not just the mercenary and brevet commission officers, but NCOs and foreign instructors, and amongst our special forces, cross training and temporary joint command. There are certainly pitfalls now, but I do think that a German is currently considered an ally in most all defense issues that are up to date.
Could be worse
A WARNING TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES
“President Obama, before you try that gun grab, I have a WARNING for you… So help me God.”
President Barack Hussein Obama, on behalf of true Americans, I want to inform you that we will not follow your unconstitutional executive order.
We the American people have no other recourse than to resort to civil disobedience. We have no representatives in Washington DC who will stand and the Supreme Court has failed us as well.
You have embraced violent protest movements in America such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. We are not lowering ourselves to that despicable progressive socialist “rules for radicals” model.
We, the people, are just telling you “No.” We will now be sending you emails and social media posts as well as calling OUR White House to say one word, “No.”
And if you persist and take the same course of action as Xerxes, we will give you a two-word response, Molon Labe.
This is your finale 6 mounths as president of the United States so let us come to an agreement: you leave us alone and we, the American people, will let you stay and finish your term.
Heed these words of counsel. Our American blood is descended from men and women who rejected tyranny — so shall we honor their memory.
If you do not wish to honor your oath to the Constitution and protect us, we shall protect ourselves. And NEVER forget the oath we American Warriors take is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign, and domestic.
I beseech you, do not come down on the wrong side of American history. Do not come out into the East Room and issue these executive orders, which you know very well are not constitutional. America is a Constitutional Republic, not a constitutional monarchy, and we are not ruled by edict.
We have a system of checks and balances, separation of powers, and coequal branches of government. If you cannot govern this Nation according to its principles and established laws, then tell us so, and kindly vacate the office.
Nothing you are proposing by this executive action has any relevance to recent incidents. You have released countless criminals and now you wish to restrict law-abiding citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms.
Go to your hometown in Chicago, take a walk this evening in Washington DC, or drive up to Baltimore if you want to rectify “gun violence.”
But as a proud gun owner, an American, I am telling you simply, “Stand down.”